nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/f8cc07764d9bc1f6 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250822s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/f8cc07764d9bc1f6 doi eng 342 23 Berman, Emily Author aut Trump’s Manufactured Emergencies - A Playbook for Expanding Authoritarian Power Berman, Emily Verfassungsblog 2025-08-22 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The Trump administration’s actions in Washington D.C. represent the continuation of interconnected political and rhetorical tactics that the president has used since his second inauguration that we should expect to see again and again – using misleading or downright fabricated information as the basis for declaring an emergency, relying on the fabricated emergency to invoke emergency legal authorities, and then relying on those authorities to take actions that exceed even the broad powers that such emergencies confer under the law. Looking ahead, we can expect the administration to run this same playbook in additional, predictable ways. CC BY-SA 4.0 Authoritarian Populism Authoritarianism Donald Trump Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/trumps-manufactured-emergencies/ raw object